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Photo of TB patient with grandson, Kenya

This image was selected as a winner of the 2010 Fogarty Grantee Photo Contest.

Man seated on dusty ground, infant in his lap

Photo title: TB patient with grandson, Kenya

Photographer: E. Jane Carter, MD

Description: The TB Manyatta program was developed in the late 1980s to address the needs of the nomadic tribes of Kenya. The program still exists today. Fogarty scholars and Fogarty AITRP trainees are presently working on a variety of projects addressing TB and TB/HIV co-infection in this region.

Funding Fogarty program: Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows Programs, and AIDS International Training in Research Program

Principal Investigator: E. Jane Carter, Brown University